Among the 674 _a_ and _m_ Shakespearian words occurring once only the proportion of words now _obsolete_ is unexpectedly small. Of 310 such words with initial _m_, only one-sixth, or 51 at the utmost, are now disused, either in sense or even in form. Of this half-hundred a few are used in Shakespeare, but not at present, as verbs; thus, to _maculate_, to _miracle_, to _mud_, to _mist_, to _mischief_, to _moral_--also _merchandized_ and _musicked_. Another class now wellnigh unknown are _misproud, misdread, mappery, mansionry, marybuds, masterdom, mistership, mistressship._ Then there are slight variants from our modern orthography or meanings, as _mained_ for maimed, _markman_ for marksman, _make_ for mate, _makeless_ for mateless, _mirable, mervaillous, mess_ for mass, _manakin, minikin, meyny_ for many, _momentarry_ for momentary, _moraler, mountainer, misgraffing, misanthropos, mott_ for motto, to _mutine, mi'nutely_ for every minute. None seem wholly dead words except the following eighteen: To _mammock_, tear; _mell_, meddle; _mose_, mourn; _micher_, truant; _mome_, fool; _mallecho_, mischief; _maund_, basket; _marcantant_, merchant; _mun_, sound of wind; _mure_, wall; _meacock_, henpecked; _mop_, grin; _militarist_, soldier; _murrion_, affected with murrain; _mammering_, hesitating; _mountant_, raised up; _mered_, only; _man-entered_, grown up. About one-tenth of the remaining _apa? ?e?? mue?a_ with initial _m_ are descriptive compounds. Among them are the following adjectives: _Maiden-tongued, maiden-widowed, man-entered_ (before noted as obsolete), _many-headed, marble-breasted, marble-constant, marble-hearted, marrow-eating, mean-apparelled, merchant-marring, mercy-lacking, mirth-moving, moving-delicate, mock-water, more-having, mortal-breathing, mortal-living, mortal-staring, motley-minded, mouse-eaten, moss-grown, mouth-filling, mouth-made, muddy-mettled, momentary-swift, maid-pale_. From this list, which is nearly complete, it is evident that such compounds as may be multiplied at will form but a small fraction of the words that are used _once only_ by Shakespeare.